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Today should be another focused day, but between finally feeling better and having gotten through a bunch of other stuff there will be a certain amount of rejoicing worked in. We finished morning calculus two hours after starting, with an hour of talking worked throughout. (We're both usually very good about not chattering during math... it was a bad kitty day.) But eventually I took the garbage out, started my laundry, and went to train. Another cool day, but I'd been too warm for the last twelve hours (even with the heat turned off and the windows open...) so I was out there in a tank top and gramicci fatigues* and it was cool and very windy and exactly right. Even if it was windy enough that I had to compensate for the wind against my dao (I really need to get a good dao one of these days).

My audience -- the two little Japanese boys whose apartment looks out over the yard I practice in -- was back, only this time without pants! I can only guess... I look up, and the two of them are spreadeagled against the window (standing I suspect in the back of a sofa) in shirts and underwear, waving wildly at me. I should really find out how old they are... I suspect they're a little young, but their enthusiasm is endearing, and they roll, bend and bounce so well at that age.

First time I've made it through a full weapons set in the last couple of weeks. Not all the way back, but it's getting better every day. Chen dao felt nice and springy. Competition jian seemed technically decent, but felt a little off.

Then I looked over towards a cleared area to one side of the building, and what did I see but a brave young stand of Coprinus comates. And I was starting to feel hungry anyway... So I cycled my laundry, and then picked them, took them upstairs, sauteed them with apples and onions, and ate them. On bread.

* Which made me look really butch. What the heck is going on with my shoulders? I have not been pumping iron, I have been sick.